Criminal Lawyers

Prosecutor becomes a defense attorney after an innocent man is sent to an electric chair.

After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drinking, and acquires a criminal clientèle.

Lawyer Tommy Farrell is a defender of crooks. Vicki Gaye encourages him to go straight, but mob king Rico Angelo insists otherwise.

12-year-old Danny meets up with Big Tim. a hoodlum wannabe running slot machines. 10 years later, Big Tim is a mob kingpin and Danny is his consiglieri, although still in law school-but first love interferes with his budding mob career.

Steve e la sua ragazza sono implicati in un omicidio, ma sono innocenti. Riusciranno a convincerne le autorità in tempo?

A successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns that his wife has been unfaithful.

Una grande rapina va come previsto, ma la sfortuna e il solido lavoro di polizia fanno sì che tutto si sbagli.

Starting with a violent prison break, clever, ruthless Ralph Cotter corrupts everyone around him.

Prominent lawyer shoots unfaithful girlfriend during quarrel, has to establish alibi.

Affascinato dalla splendida signora Bannister, il marinaio Michael O'Hara si unisce a una bizzarra crociera in yacht e finisce impantanato in un complesso complotto di omicidio.

William Powell plays William Foster, a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, thus springing criminals out of prison. He is romantically involved with dancer Irene Manners (Kay Francis), who is two-timing him, although she wants to marry him. She kills a man driving while out with her other man, Jack Defoe (Scott Kolk), who takes the blame. Unfortunately, a ring Foster had just given Irene is found at the crime scene. Foster ends up defending Jack, but when the ring is found, he thinks he is protecting Irene, so pleads guilty to jury tampering, which he had done for the first time to save Irene. After his plea, the the prosecuting DA confides that Jack would have gotten off...

Johnny Kelly, who plans on resigning from the police force and leaving his wife the next day, has a very eventful last night on duty.

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.

A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at accidents. His boss is determined to stop him, and hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor.

Attorney Anton Adam defeats rival Bentley in murder case and gets partnership offer. His career crashes when framed by racketeer Gilmurry and actress in fake lawsuit. Secretary Olga remains loyal through it all.

The assistant (Arthur) of a sleazy lawyer (Holt) is determined to end his cheating ways.

An ambulance-chasing lawyer gets tangled up with a female investigator out to end his shyster ways.

Two struggling lawyers take on criminal clients for a mobster, raising moral concerns as their finances improve. One lawyer's prosecutor boyfriend complicates matters, forcing them to confront ethical dilemmas.

Victor Shanley had once been New York City's most-acclaimed crime-fighting, crusading District Attorney and the scourge of the underworld. But the workaholic demands of the job led him to drinking and alcoholism. Dismissed from office in disgrace and divorced by his wife, Carol, Shanley soon found himself a gutter-drunk. But when hired by gangster Al Kruger, racketeer in charge of a hot-car ring, Shanley is soon back on top and made rich in the process, and relishing the revenge he had taken on the law-and-order faction he bitterly thought had done him an injustice. Shanley befriends a young engineer, Bob Terrell, who had inadvertently gotten mixed up with Kruger's mob, and gets Bob a job with an aircraft-factory in Tennessee. But Kruger, fearful that Bob might have knowledge that will incriminate him, has his henchman "Slim" Jacobs murder the young man. Shanley vows to get revenge on Kruger.

Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father's courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What's a poor father to do?

Criminal lawyer Barry Brandon visits the nightclub of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with spoiled society girl Betty Walker. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct; Brandon volunteers to defend her and proves that the case against her is a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming state governor. When he has dinner at Betty's home and gets drunk, she maneuvers him into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.

Three jurors are ripe for bribery by the lawyer (Richard Carlson) of a playgirl up for murder.

A DA quits after wrongly convicting an innocent man. His secretary joins his new law firm, which prospers through mob ties. His brother John joins but discovers corruption and helps the feds, leading to his own false murder conviction.

Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton).

Blind detective Duncan Maclain relies on his working senses to piece together an assortment of clues to solve a case of murder.